Mental Health Awareness

I am a survivor of mental illness. For most of my life I have struggled with Chronic Depression, Anxiety, Panic Disorder. I have also gotten to “enjoy” PTSD, an Eating Disorder and Adjustment Disorder. A Traumatic Brain Injury at 22 amplified all of that.

For many years I was in denial, for many years I hid. No more.

It is estimated that 1 in 4 people suffer from a mental health condition but many don’t accept it or seek help because of the stigma, I was one of them.

I no longer deny this part of me, I can’t say that I embrace it but by not hiding it I am able to apply the coping tools to strive for a happy life.